Let It Be Sunday, 203!

I would argue that it’s the most glorious week of the year, this space between holidays, and I can feel myself grasping at it with my fingertips trying to hold on to every minute. These are reflective days, don’t you think?

I hope you’ve had good holidays and, while some years that’s easier than others, I hope at least you’re staying steady and asking for what you need.

I’m trying to take rest and trying to chill the part of my brain that wants to stack up goals and tasks for the year ahead because, rest first PLEASE.

Take some rest today. Take it where you can get it if it’s feeling scarce. Maybe a few links below will be your moment. Happy New Year to you! I have so much gratitude to you for sharing this space with me. I mean that most sincerely.

The offering is below, as always – take whatcha need, leave whatcha don’t:

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Strawberry is the only kind of jam/preserves my 6yr old will eat and if it’s not Bon Maman he’ll eat it, but there is grumbling. He’s such a picky little snob ;) Also – Champagne Margaritas are definitely a thing I need to try. Thanks for the heads-up!

And also: I make your cranberry orange pecan coffee cake as teacher gifts every year and they are always so excited to receive them, so thank you for that one, too!

Strawberry jam is always my favorite , but I don’t sneeze at apricot either and can you even put lemon curd in the same category? I think it deserves it’s own. Yum! I don’t eat much jam these days, every once and awhile I have to have natural peanut butter on toast with strawberry jam. I never like jelly( where’s the fruit?) A fun read! Just between all of us, my apartment does that to me all the time! of course my work environment is like Las Vegas , so no one can blame me.

Happy New Year, Joy and thank you for the joy you bring to us all year long and especially on Sundays!

Love Let It Be Sundays! Thanks for doing what you do, Joy! Thanks for keepin’ on with this — here’s to another year with more new and exciting things on your horizon! Love seeing you live your best life! Happy New Year!

As I was cooking for three solid days for a holiday party, I exhausted all my regular podcasts, which mostly were doing reruns. So I binged on earlier episodes of a new discovery, “You Must Remember This,” which is about the early days of Hollywood. So interesting. So many names I had heard of but I didn’t really know the whole story. Also, the stories are told with a feminist perspective–movie stars were some of the first women to make their own fortunes from working, and they faced roadblocks from men constantly.

This time between the holidays should be a great time to reflect. Where have you been, emotionally aa we) as physical. Did you accomplish the goals that you set out at the beginning of the year? Realize that goals are that, they are not to be absolute.

The coming year year wi)l be a new opportunity to work on the goals that you set out. But they are goals, not absolutes. Be good to yourself.